"young in the 1960s was comparable to the director's image of the 1930s."" Films of this time also focused on the changes happening in the world. A sign of this was the visibility that the hippie subculture gained in various mainstream and underground media. Hippie exploitation films are 1960s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture with stereotypical situations associated with the movement such as marijuana and LSD use, sex and wild psychedelic parties. Examples include ""The Love-ins"", ""Psych-Out"", ""The Trip"", and ""Wild in the Streets"". The musical play ""Hair"" shocked stage audiences with full-frontal nudity. Dennis Hopper's ""Road Trip"" adventure"
"and at festivals; while many still embrace the hippie values of peace, love and community. Although many of the original hippies and those who were core to the movement remained (or remain) dedicated to the values they originally espoused, many of those who played more peripheral roles are often seen as having ""sold out"" during the 1980s by becoming a part of the corporate, materialist culture they initially rejected. Psychedelic hard rock was the first of the psychedelic subgenres to reach the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 songs in June 1966 with ""Paint It Black"" by the Rolling"
"Merrymount colony in 1625 (allegorically portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in ""The Maypole of Merry Mount)"" as the first hippie experience on the American continent. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the German ""Lebensreform"" movement emphasized the goodness of nature, the harms to society, people, and to nature caused by industrialization, the importance of the whole person, body and mind, and the goodness of ""the old ways"". The German youth movement known as ""Der Wandervogel"" grew out of ""Lebensreform"" as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered on German folk music. In contrast to these"
"of such originators as Son House, the Memphis Jug Band, and West Virginia mine workers the Williamson Brothers and Dick Justice."" Garth Cartwright in ""Songlines"" stated that ""as a connoisseur of American music I'm constantly surprised by some of the musical treasure ""American Epic"" discovers and shares. Not least the Hopi Indian snake dance footage of a performance in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC in 1926, a stunning find."" Phil Harrison in ""The Guardian"" wrote that ""from the jug-bands of Memphis to the woebegone country blues of the Appalachian Mountains, early 20th-century America was full of unique musical"
"notably ""The Wild Hawk"" and ""The Plowshare"". In 1915, White planned the first of the Maverick Festivals, which included music and theatrical performances. Bacchanalian and raucous but with a firmly creative underpinning, the Maverick Festivals were the precursors to the famous Woodstock Music Festival of 1969. Revelers were encouraged to come in costume; period photographs include men and women with flowers in their hair, a historical prototype for the popular cliché of the Woodstock hippie. Intended to offset the tremendous debt White incurred building his colony, the first Maverick Festival represented a great spirit of unity among previously feuding community"
"cast are joined on stage by an ensemble and members of a dance school (Ellie Bailey, Rachael Hackett, Alice Mee and Autumn Wade). 1966 - Maid of the Mountains (Musical) 1967 - The Merry Widow (Musical) 1968 - Summer Song (Musical) 1969 - Quaker Girl (Musical) 1970 - Magyar Melody (Musical) 1971 - Aladdin (Pantomime) 1971 - Finians Rainbow (Musical) 1973 - The Sound of Music (Musical) 1974 - Oaklahoma (Musical) 1975 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Pantomime) 1975 - A Funny Thing (Musical) 1976 - Jorrocks (Musical) 1977 - Mother Goose (Pantomime) 1977 - Chrysanthemum (Musical) 1978 - Humpty"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"I'd marry an heiress and live off her money? What do you take me for? An Englishman?"" and, ""French pastry ain't worth 30¢ compared to American apple pie."" In ""Little Johnny Jones"" Cohan introduced some of the dance steps and comedy features for which he would become famous. This musical is also credited as being the first American Musical, along ""with ""The Black Crook"", ""Evangeline"", ""Show Boat"""" ... or any number of other works."" (""The Black Crook"" (1866) is considered a prototype of the modern musical in that its popular songs and dances are interspersed throughout a unifying play and"
"on a musical about hippie culture. As research, they associated with a group of youths in the East Village who were dropping out and dodging the draft. They talked to people in the streets and people they know, and read articles about hippie culture and youths being kicked out of school for growing their hair long. They wrote lyrics to thirteen songs (""Ain't Got No"", ""I Got Life"", ""Reading and Writing"", ""Don't Put It Down"", ""Sodomy"", ""Colored Spade"", ""Manchester, England"", ""Frank Mills"", ""We Look at One Another"", ""Hair"", ""Aquarius"", ""Easy to Be Hard"", ""Good Morning Starshine"" and ""Where Do I"
"Hamilton (musical) Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the 2004 biography ""Alexander Hamilton"" by historian Ron Chernow. Incorporating hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, traditional-style show tunes, and color-conscious casting of non-white actors as the Founding Fathers and other historical figures, the musical achieved both critical acclaim and box office success. The musical made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in February 2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in August 2015"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"with the hippie counterculture. This was an erroneous association, as the ideals of these groups are quite different. Although Prabhupada was open to anyone becoming a member of the Hare Krishnas, they had to follow the four regulative principles, one of which is strict abstention from intoxicants, including cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names. Elevation and joy were to be derived from chanting God's holy names. The hippie Broadway musical ""Hair"" has a song, ""Hare Krishna"" with the mantra in it, along with some additional lyrics. The Hare Krishna mantra appears in a number of famous songs, notably"
"""Three Little Pigs"" (1933) - Pinto Colvig/Mary Moder/Dorothy Compton/Billy Bletcher 3. Heigh-Ho: ""Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) - The Dwarf Chorus 4. Whistle While You Work: ""Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) - Adriana Caselotti 5. Someday My Prince Will Come: ""Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) - Adriana Caselotti 6. When You Wish Upon A Star: ""Pinocchio"" (1940) - Cliff Edwards 7. Give A Little Whistle: ""Pinocchio"" (1940) - Cliff Edwards/Dickie Jones 8. Dance Of The Reed Flutes: ""Fantasia"" (1940) - The Philadelphia Orch/Leopold Stokowski 9. Baby Mine: ""Dumbo"" (1941) - Betty Noyes 10. Love"
"this day. Calling themselves “The Music Circus”. Original members flaunted colorful names such as “Mr. Crow”, “Jazmo”, “Pretty Peggy”, “Beeboo”, “TeePee Nancy”, “Sweet Sue” and “Big Bear” to name a few. This unique congregation was the nucleus of a cultural movement at that time. A movement that was maybe in contrast to, but generally accepted by the numerous loggers and long time ranchers already established in Long Valley. It all started with a chance meeting between Dan Halkyard (then manager of the Alpine Playhouse) and Pat Harren (a local musician). After some chit-chat, they started into a conversation about maybe"
"in Mill Valley, California, in the spring of 2007. ""Hair"" was Broadway's first concept musical, a form that dominated the musical theatre of the seventies, including shows like ""Company"", ""Follies"", ""Pacific Overtures"" and ""A Chorus Line"". While the development of the concept musical was an unexpected consequence of ""Hair""'s tenure on Broadway, the expected rock music revolution on Broadway turned out to be less than complete. MacDermot followed ""Hair"" with three successive rock scores: ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"" (1971); ""Dude"" (1972), a second collaboration with Ragni; and ""Via Galactica"" (1972). While ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"" found receptive audiences and a"
"Whoopee! Whoopee! is a 1928 musical comedy with a book based on Owen Davis's play, ""The Nervous Wreck."" The musical libretto was written by William Anthony McGuire, with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1928, starring Eddie Cantor, and introduced the hit song ""Love Me or Leave Me"", sung by Ruth Etting. In California, Sheriff Bob Wells and the daughter of a rancher Sally Morgan are getting married. She is in love with Wanenis, whose part-Indian heritage presents social difficulties for their romance. Sally abandons Sheriff Bob and their wedding, catching"
"Hair (film) Hair is a 1979 musical anti-war drama film based on the 1968 Broadway musical ""Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical"" about a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a ""tribe"" of hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to marijuana and LSD, and their environment of unorthodox relationships and draft evasion. The film was directed by Miloš Forman (who was nominated for a César for his work on the film) and adapted for the screen by Michael Weller (who would collaborate with Forman on a second picture, ""Ragtime"", two years later)."
"that began in the 1890s, the Princess Theatre musicals of the early 20th century, and comedies in the 1920s and 1930s (such as the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein), with ""Oklahoma!"" (1943), musicals moved in a more dramatic direction. Famous musicals over the subsequent decades included ""My Fair Lady"" (1956), ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1980), ""Into the Woods"" (1986), and ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), as well as more contemporary hits including ""Rent"" (1994), ""The Lion King"" (1997), ""Wicked"" (2003), and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musical theatre may be produced"
"used in a literal sense to mean ""multiracial""). It was written, recorded, and reached the top of the charts nearly two decades after the start of the ""hapa haole"" fad, the Hawaiian music craze, which began with the popularity of a 1912 Broadway musical, ""The Bird of Paradise"", and exploded in earnest at the Hawaiian Pavilion at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. The music craze helped promote tourism to Hawaii. ""Through national songhits like 'My Little Grass Shack', ""hapa haole"" music solidified and perpetuated U.S. mainland caricatures of Hawaii as a place of grass shacks, white sandy beaches,"
"Michael Butler (producer) Michael Butler (born November 26, 1926) is an American theatrical producer best known for bringing the rock musical ""Hair"" from the Public Theater to Broadway in 1968. During his time as ""Hair"" producer he was dubbed by the press as ""the hippie millionaire"". Other Broadway production credits include the play ""Lenny"" in 1971 and the musical ""Reggae"" in 1980. Butler was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy family. In the early 19th century, his ancestors started a paper company on the Fox River in St. Charles, Illinois, and supplied paper for the U.S. Congress. The business"
"but to the entire world. Notes Bibliography Hair (musical) Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining"
"and performed by African Americans in a Broadway theatre (largely inspired by the routines of the minstrel shows), followed by the ragtime-tinged ""Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk"" (1898), and the highly successful ""In Dahomey"" (1902). Hundreds of musical comedies were staged on Broadway in the 1890s and early 20th century composed of songs written in New York's Tin Pan Alley by composers such as Gus Edwards, John Walter Bratton and George M. Cohan (""Little Johnny Jones"" (1904)). Still, New York runs continued to be relatively short, with a few exceptions, compared with London runs, until the 1920s. Tours,"
"films such as ""Pinocchio"" (1940) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). The mid-twentieth century baby boomers provided a growing market for children's music. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Ella Jenkins were among the politically progressive and socially conscious performers who aimed albums at children. Novelty recordings like ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" (a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie) and the fictional music group Alvin and the Chipmunks were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time. In the 1960s, as the baby boomers matured and became more politically aware, they embraced"
"a political presence in their inclusion of other races in their musicals. In ""The Red Moon,"" Cole and Johnson broke racial lines as they included a love scene between Rosamond’s Green and Mitchell’s Minnehaha. This spotlight on Native Americans was so well received that Rosamond was inducted as a ‘sub-chief’ into the Iroquois tribe of Montreal’s Caughnawaga Reservation, which had a majority population of ethnic Mohawk people. Cole and the Johnson brothers also created and produced several ""white"" musicals: ""Sleeping Beauty and the Beast"" in 1901, ""In Newport"" in 1904, and ""Humpty Dumpty"" in 1904. Johnson would also collaborate to"
"Hog Farm The Hog Farm is an organization considered to be America's longest running hippie commune. With beginnings as a collective, first in North Hollywood, then, after moving, taking its name from its actual hog farm domicile in Tujunga, California. The group, founded in the mid-1960s by peace activist and clown Wavy Gravy (formerly Hugh Romney) and his actress wife, Jahanara Romney (formerly Bonnie Jean Beecher), evolved into a ""mobile, hallucination-extended family"", active internationally in both music and politics. The Hog Farm is perhaps best known for their involvement with the Woodstock Music Festival. While lodging on Manhattan's East Side"
"about to consume the barn, Howard's mentholated tobacco experiments become successful, ensuring financial success for all the poor people of Rainbow Valley, both white and black. Sharon and Woody are wed, and bid a fond farewell to Finian, who leaves Rainbow Valley in search of his own rainbow. Since the musical was such a success on stage, there had always been interest in filming it. MGM was interested in filming it in 1948 as a vehicle for Mickey Rooney. However, Harburg set the price for the rights at $1 million and wanted creative control. For a time, a German company"
"on February 2, 2010. Finian's Rainbow Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane, produced by Lee Sabinson. The original 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances, while a film version was released in 1968 and several revivals have followed. Finian moves to the southern United States (the fictional state of Missitucky is a combination of Mississippi and Kentucky) from Ireland with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief that it will grow. Og, a leprechaun,"
"was killed in the war. As ""Let the Sunshine In"" plays, they mourn the loss of their friend. The movie ends with what appears to be a full-scale peace-protest in Washington D.C. The film's plot and soundtrack both differed greatly from those of the original musical stage play; consequently, the original creators were unhappy with the adaptation. Gerome Ragni and James Rado, who wrote the original musical along with composer Galt MacDermot, were unhappy with the film adaptation, saying it failed to capture the essence of ""Hair"" in that hippies were portrayed as ""oddballs"" and ""some sort of aberration"" without"
"culture sustained the hippies, giving birth to bands like The Doors. West Hollywood became the quintessential L.A. hippie gathering area, particularly on the Sunset Strip where the Whiskey A Go Go was located, and The Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard. The Strip was the location of the protest described in Buffalo Springfield's early 1967 hippie anthem, ""For What It's Worth"" by Stephen Stills. One of the first ""Love Ins"" took place in Elysian Park and spread from there. Many hippies lived in that portion of Los Angeles known as East Hollywood. Before the Summer of Love, Timothy Leary and Richard"
"(1941) 2. Bambi (1942) 3. Animated Classics of the 40s (1941 – 1948) 1. Song of the South (1946) 2. Cinderella (1950) 3. Peter Pan (1953) 1. Lady And The Tramp (1955) 2. Sleeping Beauty (1959) 3. The Vanishing Prairie (1954) 1. The Later Animated Years (1961 – 1973) 2. The Rescuers (1977) 1. Mary Poppins (1964) 1. Pete's Dragon (1977) 2. Live Music From The Magic Kingdoms 3. Music Of The Magic Kingdom Attractions The Magical Music of Walt Disney The Magical Music of Walt Disney is a 4-volume compilation album of Disney music and songs up through 1978,"
"released on VHS by 20th Century Fox Video in 1982 with later VHS releases from MGM/UA Home Video. The film was released on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on April 27, 1999, as a Region 1 widescreen DVD, and on Blu-Ray on June 7, 2011. Hair (film) Hair is a 1979 musical anti-war drama film based on the 1968 Broadway musical ""Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical"" about a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a ""tribe"" of hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to marijuana and LSD, and their environment of"
"influence of LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming. For the next several decades, many hippies and neo-hippies became part of the Deadhead and Phish Head communities, attending music and art festivals held around the country. The Grateful Dead toured continuously, with few interruptions between 1965 and 1995. Phish toured sporadically between 1983 and 2004. With the demise of the Grateful Dead and Phish, the nomadic touring hippies have been left without a main jam band to follow. Instead, they attend a growing series of summer festivals, the largest of which is called the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which premiered in"
"cowboy celebrates remarriage to his first wife. Haley teaches apprentice waiters to make dining customers unhappy. Lillie is the ""priggish, unimaginative leader of a choral society"" and a mermaid with a strange romantic life. Herb Shriner, without harmonica, provides a wry Western themed monologue as ""A Feller from Indiana."" Sources: Playbill Vault; The biggest success from the musical was ""Haunted Heart"", with which Perry Como and Jo Stafford had hit recordings. It was also the title track of an 2005 album by Renee Fleming. Blossom Dearie recorded ""Rhode Island is Famous For You."" Reviews were favorable from Brooks Atkinson of"